Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01G—WEIGHING
  • G01G11/00—Apparatus for weighing a continuous stream of material during flow; Conveyor belt weighers
  • G01G11/003—Details; specially adapted accessories
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
  • B65B1/30—Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality or the material fed or filled
  • B65B1/46—Check-weighing of filled containers or receptacles
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
  • B65B59/04—Machines constructed with readily-detachable units or assemblies, e.g. to facilitate maintenance
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
  • B65B65/003—Packaging lines, e.g. general layout
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01G—WEIGHING
  • G01G21/00—Details of weighing apparatus
  • G01G21/28—Frames, Housings
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01G—WEIGHING
  • G01G21/00—Details of weighing apparatus
  • G01G21/23—Support or suspension of weighing platforms

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a frame of a weighing winningvorrich- device with two front side cheeks and a plurality of the two side cheeks connecting longitudinal members.
• a frame of a check weigher with a central supporting cylindrical tube is known as a longitudinal part, at the two longitudinal ends of each a substantially square cross member is welded in the form of a thin sheet metal plate.
• four other frame parts are present, each meet with their longitudinal ends on the cross members in their corners and there are welded to the transverse parts.
• a control and evaluation is housed in a housing which is attached to side holding plates.
• the document DE 10 2009 047 090 AI discloses a frame of a weighing conveyor, which has a modular structure and for this purpose has a plurality of set-up elements in the form of sheet metal plates, which are connected to each other by means of struts. Between adjoining installation elements, a barrier device can also be positioned, which can receive, for example, a control device and / or display device. The barrier device is fixed to the installation elements via separate strut elements.
• the invention has for its object to provide a frame of a weighing conveyor of the type mentioned, which is constructed as compact as possible. The object is achieved by a frame of a weighing conveyor with the features of claim 1, and in particular in that one of the longitudinal members is designed as a control cabinet for the weighing conveyor, which extends with its width over the entire clearance between the two side walls extends.
• control cabinet or the width of the cabinet extends over the entire length between the two side walls, the cabinet can form a supporting element of the frame.
• no separate strut elements between the Sowan- gene and the two sides of the cabinet are required, whereby the stability of the frame increases and the assembly cost is reduced.
• the width of the control cabinet extends in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the side members or in the conveying direction of the weighing conveyor, i.
• the width of the control cabinet corresponds to the clear distance between the two side bolsters.
• control cabinet can form a load-bearing element, in particular a load-bearing hollow profile or a strut of the frame.
• Carrying element means that the cabinet is mechanically stable and can absorb forces without significant deformation in order to reduce or prevent distortion of the frame, for example, under mechanical loads.
• further elements of the frame may be fastened to the control cabinet, for example a support arm of a labeling device and / or a printing device and / or a sorting device.
• the support arm can be connected to the rear of the cabinet, in particular screwed.
• the control cabinet accommodates electronic components such as power supplies, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), relay cards and the like, as well as distributors and cable ducts.
• the cabinet is made of sheet metal.
• the side cheeks are each plate-shaped and / or have a rectangular basic shape.
• the frame may also have three or more side walls, wherein the cabinet can be arranged in principle between any two successive side walls.
• the frame may be modular. Two respective side cheeks and the longitudinal members arranged therebetween then form a respective module of the frame. A non-end side cheek of the frame is then assigned in each case two consecutive modules of the frame. The lengths of the modules can be different from each other.
• the control cabinet may have its longest extension in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the longitudinal members. The control cabinet can therefore be wider than high and wider than deep. This allows a particularly compact design can be achieved.
• the cabinet may have a vertically oriented height that exceeds the depth of the cabinet.
• the control cabinet over its entire width may have an at least substantially identical cross-section.
• the cabinet may have a top, a rear wall and a bottom, which are integrally connected to each other, in particular are made of a folded sheet metal.
• the sheet may be formed, for example, as a steel sheet, stainless steel sheet or aluminum sheet and / or with a wall thickness in the range of 2 mm to 8 mm.
• As side walls of the cabinet can serve the side walls of the frame. Basically, the cabinet but also include their own side walls that are directly connected to the side walls. The surface contact between the control cabinet and the side walls creates a particularly stable frame.
• the cabinet is designed as a lateral upper side member.
• the further longitudinal members of the frame or of the respective module are arranged below, in the longitudinal direction of the frame further towards the middle and / or on the other longitudinal side of the frame.
• the lateral upper side member is particularly well accessible to an operator of the weighing conveyor.
• the center of mass of the control cabinet is arranged in the lateral direction within the interior of the frame formed by the side cheeks, in particular by, in particular, outer feet of the side walls.
• the cabinet is positioned so that it projects beyond the lateral end of the side wall to the outside with at most 20% of its depth extension. This also implies that the cabinet is positioned offset within the lateral end of the side cheeks.
• the control cabinet terminates at least substantially flush with the lateral end of the side cheeks. This allows a particularly space-saving design.
• the cabinet may be located below an upper end of the side bolsters. The view of a conveyor belt, which is supported by the frame in the area of the control cabinet, is therefore not covered, so that the weighing conveying direction for an operator can also be viewed from the side on which the control cabinet is located.
• the cabinet may have an outwardly hinged flap to accommodate the aforementioned electronic components, distributors and cable guides and the like.
• a flap is sturdy and easy to use.
• the flap may have a circumferential seal. As a result, the control cabinet can be sealed.
• cable bushings formed in the control cabinet can be provided with cable glands and / or cable seals.
• the cable glands can be, for example, steel armored pipe threads.
• a cable rack can be arranged below the control cabinet. Due to the cable racks, cables leading into and / or out of the control cabinet can be clearly sorted into the control cabinet.
• At least a part of the remaining side members may be formed from profiled or flat steel and / or as a round tube.
• the length of at least part of the remaining side members corresponds to the width of the control cabinet, ie, the remaining side members or at least the part thereof also extends over the entire clearance between the two side cheeks.
• the application further relates to a weighing conveyor with a weighing platform, at least one conveyor belt and a frame, as explained above.
• a plurality of conveyor belts can be arranged one behind the other.
• the two front ends of the cabinet coincide in the direction of the longitudinal extension of the longitudinal members with a conveyor belt beginning and a conveyor belt end, i. the control cabinet closes with the beginning or end of one or more conveyor belts.
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a weighing conveyor with a frame according to the invention.
• Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of a variant of the frame according to the invention shown in FIG. 1, wherein a flap of a cabinet in the closed position (Fig. 2a) or open position (Fig. 2b) is shown.
• the device shown in Fig. 1 shows a weighing conveyor 11 according to the invention, comprising a first feed belt 15, a second feed belt 17, a weighing belt 19, a metal detector 23 and a printing and labeling device 13 with two conveyor belts 27, 29.
• the weighing belt 19 is arranged with a below the weighing belt 19, not shown, coupled, which is designed to determine the weight of a moving over the weighing belt 19 piece goods.
• Weighing belt 19 and load cell form a weighing platform, which can be designed as a checkweigher or checkweigher or as a pricing device.
• On both sides of the three conveyor belts 15, 17, 19 Schmutzabweisbleche 21 are provided.
• packages to be weighed are transferred from the feed belts 15, 17 to the weighing belt 19, weighed there and transported on to a conveyor belt of the metal detector 23. Subsequently, the packs are taken over by the printing and labeling device 13 and provided with a label which has been previously printed with the weight determined by the weighing cell for the respective pack.
• the metal detector 23 may also be omitted, or instead of the metal detector 23 or in addition thereto, for example, a sorting device may be provided.
• the weighing conveyor 1 1 comprises a frame 25 on which the feed belts 15, 17, the weighing belt 19 with the weighing cell, the metal detector 23 with associated conveyor belt and the two conveyor belts 27, 29 of the printing and labeling device 13 support.
• the frame 25 comprises a plurality of side cheeks 33 which are fixedly connected to each other in the region of the feed belts 15, 17, the weighing belt 19 and the metal detector 23, ie in the region of a weighing module and a metal detector module of the frame, via a plurality of longitudinal supports 37 designed as round tubes ,
• the side cheeks 33 of the weighing module are each formed in two parts, the two respective side wall parts being designed as crossbars 39, which are provided on the inner sides of the side wall parts 33, as square cross-tubes. are bound.
• To the side cheeks 33 two feet 35 are screwed, which are independently adjustable in height.
• a control cabinet 31 for controlling the weighing conveyor 1 1 is provided in the view according to FIG. 1 on the rear side of the frame 25.
• the control cabinet 31 is part of the frame 25 designed according to the invention in this area, as will be explained in more detail below with reference to FIG. 2.
• the frame module shown in FIG. 2 differs from the corresponding frame module shown in FIG. 1 in that an upper and a lower side member 37 are provided on the front side of the frame (which lies behind in FIG. whereas in Fig. 1 these have been omitted in order to realize a front extract for a so-called bottom labeler.
• FIG. 1 differs from the corresponding frame module shown in FIG. 1 in that an upper and a lower side member 37 are provided on the front side of the frame (which lies behind in FIG. whereas in Fig. 1 these have been omitted in order to realize a front extract for a so-called bottom labeler.
• the local frame 25 on the front side further up and down provided, less space-consuming different side members 37 on.
• the upper rear side member of the frame 25 (which is in front in FIG. 2) is formed in the area of the printing and labeling apparatus 13 as a control cabinet 31 in which electronic components, distributors, cable guides and the like are accommodated can be, which are required to control the weighing conveyor 1 1.
• the control cabinet 31 replaces a longitudinal carrier formed, for example, as a round tube and thus forms a supporting part of the frame 25.
• the frame 25 is constructed in a particularly compact and space-saving manner.
• the control cabinet 31 extends over the entire distance between the two side walls 33 and is at the two seewan- gene 33 attached.
• the width of the control cabinet 31 corresponds to the distance between the two end-side side walls 33.
• the height and depth of the control cabinet 31 is relatively small compared to its width.
• the control cabinet 31 has an identical cross-section across its width.
• the control cabinet 31 is placed in such a way that it does not protrude outwardly beyond the side walls 33 in the lateral direction, but terminates flush therewith. This ensures that the center of gravity of the control cabinet 31 - as seen in the lateral direction - is arranged within the interior of the frame 25 formed by the side cheeks 33, in particular by the feet 35 of the side cheeks 33. This counteracts tilting of the frame 25 and thus contributes to the stability of the frame 25.
• the control cabinet 41 does not protrude upward beyond the side walls 33.
• a lower side member 37 designed as an L or flat profile is provided below the control cabinet 41.
• the interior of the control cabinet 31 is accessible via a flap 41, which is shown in its closed position in FIG. 2a and in its opened position in FIG. 2b.
• a flap 41 By trained in the walls of the cabinet 31, not shown cable glands cables can be passed.
• corresponding cable glands are provided on the cable glands.
• a cable rack 43 is provided below the cabinet 41, which serves as a sorting aid for the guided into the cabinet 31 and led out of the cabinet 31 cable.

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